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⚖️ Immigrant Groups Warned This Was Coming
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 15, 2024. After immigrants and their allies held marches and vigils in four Iowa cities to protest SF 2340, a few promised lawsuits were coming. Now, they’re here. The first lawsuit was filed May 9…
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👀 Another Iowa Starbucks Unionizing
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. Happy National Teacher Appreciation Week and National Nurses Week! It’s Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Recent-immigrant Iowans worried, upset, and angry with a new law held vigils in four Iowa cities last week. Big crowds came out to Davenport, Des…
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4 Iowa Vigils for International Workers’ Day
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Happy May Day, aka, International Workers’ Day! (Read about why the US government doesn’t want to recognize it.) If you want to show solidarity for your fellow workers—especially immigrant Iowans working in some of the…
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Who Here Is In a Union?
News for working Iowans The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Apr. 17, 2024. It’s spring! Summer, maybe, with the temperatures last weekend? In any case, spring always (because I’m a masochist I guess) makes me think of spring cleaning, renewal, and reaffirmation of what I’m doing and why. So: I’m extending…
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War On Workers Is Over (If You Want It)
News for working Iowans The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2024. Democrats may be in the minority in the Iowa Legislature, but that doesn’t mean they’re not still trying to pass meaningful legislation to help Iowa’s workers. This year, that includes an Iowa House proposal to amend the Iowa Constitution…
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Activists Promise an Iowa Immigrant Worker Strike
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2024. Today at noon, unionized graduate students at the University of Iowa are interrupting the university’s “One Day for Iowa” fundraising push at the Pentacrest. The reason? Ending the fees they call “paying to work.” (petition…
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What’s Next for 1,276 Laid Off Tyson Workers?
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2024. I’m still closely following the news that 1,276 Iowans will lose their jobs when the Tyson pork processing plant in Perry closes in June. It will be the state’s largest plant closure in a decade,…
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Largest Plant Closure in a Decade Comes to Iowa
News for working Iowans Share with a friend The newsletter for the Iowa worker. It’s Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2024. 1,276. That’s how many people in and around the central Iowa town of Perry will lose their jobs by the end of June, after Tyson announced Monday it would permanently close its longtime pork processing…
